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Shades Of Brown Lyrics

Artist: MDC
Album: Shades Of Brown

They say the darkest hour is just before the dawnIn chess, without exception, white moves the first pawnThey called it "Black Tuesday" when the stock market crashedA fix in 1919 turned the White Sox to BlackBlack balled, black magic, executioner's hoodWhite hatted, white horsed, champion of goodBlack knight of Dark Ages on the darkest nightThe Pope walks in truth, head to toe in white

[Chorus:]Who started all this bullshit - were they looking for a fight?You didn't have to be there to know that they were whiteBut when you're talking skin tone, let's not fuck aroundCause no one's really black or white, we're all just shades of brown

Black hearted, black beard on the briney deepOr the family outcast you call the black sheepDays of black plague - draw your final breathHeading for heaven white dying of Black Death

Mankind is preoccupied to keep each other downSome use superstition, a Bible or a crownAt best it's fear and ignorance, at worst, it's a sinNot God and country, king or crown, it's the pigment of our skinUsed to reinforce what's wrong or rightIt's really just the presence or absence of lightIn the blackest hour of the blackest dayIt isn't mighty white of us, but we gotta say

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White when your marry, black when you dieA racial hierarchy, a festering white lieWhite stands for ignorance, pure and sincereBut if you're talking bigotry it should be crystal clearThe new world becond, the immigrants cameHomogenized their culture, anglicized their namesThen they painted Jesus, blonde with eyes of blueNot a Nazarene, more a nazi than a JewIn the black revolution with their Black Power foundTill their leaders were all jailed or stomped into the groundAnd the final step ironic - to nail that coffin tightThe powder of enslavement in their glassine bags of white